The Archer City Council received the city’s 2023-2024 fiscal year financial audit during its meeting on Thursday, Feb. 27.

The first weekend of spring break in Archer City—March 8 and 9—offers an exciting lineup of activities around the square for local denizens as well as tourists from near and far. These include the preview opening of the Larry McMurtry Literary Center, an open house at Aulds Classic Cars and a Texasville Opry performance at the Royal Theater. It is a triad of classic collections: of books, cars and music.

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For many Christians - especially those with a liturgical calendar - we just entered the season of Lent yesterday for the year 2025. The season of Lent ends with the Tridium the three days that recall the Lord’s Last supper, His agony in the garden of Gethsemane, His Crucifixion on Good Friday and His early Sunday morning Resurrection from the dead. Lent began yesterday on what is called Ash Wednesday, the Scripture readings for which open with words from the prophet Joel “Even now, declares the Lord, Return to me with all your heart” (Joel 2:12). It reminds us to Repent and that we’re involved - whether we know it or not - in spiritual warfare. Lent calls us to imitate Jesus who spending 40 days in the desert at the beginning of his public ministry “was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert to be tempted.” He entered into the desert to do battle/ spiritual warfare against the temptations to sin from the devil, the world and the flesh. He emerged victorious from his battles with what is known as the triple concupiscence summarized by the apostle John in 1stJohn 2:16 as “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful vainglory of life which are not of the Father but are of the world.” He was victorious on our behalf so that in Him, we also might have the victory by the grace of the Holy Spirit over temptations to sin and over its consequence - death and Hell.

The Archer County Commissioner’s Court discussed expected growth in Archer County and how that might affect the county’s subdivision rules and regulations during its commissioner’s court meeting Monday, Feb. 24.

The Archer City ISD school board listened to a presentation from Christian Merritt of Live Oak Public Finance on bond refinancing and new bond possibilities during its board meeting Monday, Feb. 24.

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The cities of Archer City, Holliday, Lakeside City, Megargel, and Scotland saw an increase in sales tax rebates in February than they did in the same time frame in 2024. Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose districts $1.5 billion in local sales tax allocations for February, 9.4 percent more than in February 2024.